Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) Preparation

Program facts

Study fee

Free

subjects

8

lessons

38

Estimated time

38.5 hours

Content last reviewed

22 October 2026

Access period

30 days

Study language

Arabic and English

About the program

Across eight modules and 38 lessons, learners study financial-crime concepts, international standards, program controls, and technical tools. Each lesson includes a worked case, exercise, and feedback. The program has formative checks, a separate internal summative assessment, and a 20-question mini-mock weighted to the official domain percentages. It does not replicate the official ACAMS exam or guarantee eligibility or success.

Practical relevance

Across eight modules and 38 lessons, learners study financial-crime concepts, international standards, program controls, and technical tools. Each lesson includes a worked case, exercise, and feedback. The program has formative checks, a separate internal summative assessment, and a 20-question mini-mock weighted to the official domain percentages. It does not replicate the official ACAMS exam or guarantee eligibility or success.

Why this program

Independent bilingual CAMS preparation across the four ACAMS domains, with explanations, cases, and original questions.

Career relevance

Across eight modules and 38 lessons, learners study financial-crime concepts, international standards, program controls, and technical tools. Each lesson includes a worked case, exercise, and feedback. The program has formative checks, a separate internal summative assessment, and a 20-question mini-mock weighted to the official domain percentages. It does not replicate the official ACAMS exam or guarantee eligibility or success.

What you will learn

• Distinguish financial-crime patterns and sector and product risks, reasoning from facts without treating a signal as proof.
• Apply due diligence, beneficial ownership, and risk-based principles to customer cases.
• Identify roles and jurisdictional limits of international standards, national authorities, and FIUs.
• Analyze enterprise risk and design governance, independent testing, and management reporting controls.
• Triage alerts and analyze investigations, escalation, reporting, evidence retention, and confidentiality.
• Evaluate customer lifecycle, training, team, and privacy controls amid change and higher risk.
• Test identity, screening, monitoring, and AI tools, their data quality, and operating effectiveness.

Who it is for

• CAMS candidates and financial-crime professionals.
• Compliance and anti-money-laundering staff in banks, exchange houses, insurers, securities firms and payment service providers
• Monitoring, investigations and sanctions-screening analysts, and internal audit and risk professionals who assess financial-crime controls
• Staff of supervisory authorities, financial intelligence units and designated non-financial businesses seeking a structured bilingual review

Curriculum

1. Subject 1 Open for free

   Financial-crime concepts and banking risks

   Financial-crime concepts and banking risks

   4 lessons · 4 hours

   1. Differentiate financial crime categories 58 min
   2. Trace predicates and proceeds 56 min
   3. Assess retail, corporate and trade exposure 58 min
   4. Assess PEP and high-risk customers 58 min
2. Subject 2

   Nonbank sectors and complex structures

   Nonbank sectors and complex structures

   4 lessons · 4 hours

   1. Assess securities and insurance 56 min
   2. Trace MSB, PSP and e-commerce flows 56 min
   3. Assess virtual assets and gaming 56 min
   4. Assess real estate and gatekeepers 58 min
3. Subject 3

   Global AFC standards and cooperation

   Global AFC standards and cooperation

   4 lessons · 3.5 hours

   1. Apply FATF standards proportionately 56 min
   2. Distinguish authorities and FIU roles 56 min
   3. Use official threat reports and cooperation 56 min
   4. Appraise nongovernment guidance 56 min
4. Subject 4

   Jurisdiction, information sharing, and inclusion

   Jurisdiction, information sharing, and inclusion

   4 lessons · 3.5 hours

   1. Interpret national and sectoral assessments 56 min
   2. Compare US and EU AFC frameworks 56 min
   3. Assess public-private sharing 56 min
   4. Balance overlapping legal constraints 56 min
5. Subject 5

   Compliance-program design and governance

   Compliance-program design and governance

   4 lessons · 3.5 hours

   1. Design program pillars and lines of defense 56 min
   2. Write operational risk appetite 56 min
   3. Calculate inherent and residual exposure 56 min
   4. Draft policy, standard and procedure 56 min
6. Subject 6

   Customer controls, investigations, and coordination

   Customer controls, investigations, and coordination

   10 lessons · 9.5 hours

   1. Govern committees and board information 56 min
   2. Distinguish reporting and adjacent teams 56 min
   3. Control the customer lifecycle 56 min
   4. Test control design and operation 56 min
   5. Design high-risk and internal-party controls 56 min
   6. Investigate unusual activity and draft reports 56 min
   7. Escalate, exit, and respond to authorities 56 min
   8. Balance de-risking, inclusion, and communication 56 min
   9. Train staff and coordinate AFC roles 56 min
   10. Integrate privacy, cyber, and other risk teams 56 min
7. Subject 7

   Customer data, identity, and screening

   Customer data, identity, and screening

   4 lessons · 3.5 hours

   1. Select lifecycle tools and govern data 56 min
   2. Evaluate digital identity checks 56 min
   3. Configure name and sanctions screening 56 min
   4. Run periodic and event-driven refresh 56 min
8. Subject 8

   Monitoring, investigations, and technology selection

   Monitoring, investigations, and technology selection

   4 lessons · 4 hours

   1. Screen payments and transfers 56 min
   2. Tune monitoring scenarios 56 min
   3. Build case evidence and network links 56 min
   4. Select and integrate AFC technology 58 min

Subjects unlock in sequence as you progress.

Strengths

• Original work cases with reasoned decisions.
• Weighted mini-mock separate from internal assessment.
• Primary sources with clear jurisdictional limits.

Evidence basis

Official ACAMS blueprint and FATF and other primary sources; confirm current official requirements before registration.

How the route works

Professional Certification Preparation programs help learners prepare for a recognized external certification through structured knowledge, review, practice questions, and readiness assessments. Arab Platform for Professional Studies (ARPS) does not administer the certification owner's official exam.

Structured self-paced study aligned to the current external certification scope, with knowledge review, practice questions, readiness checks, and internal mock assessments.

• Focused preparation for a specific external certification.
• Content aligned to the current official exam scope when available.
• Practice questions and internal readiness assessments.
• Clear separation between Arab Platform for Professional Studies (ARPS) preparation and the official external exam.

Assessment

The route includes an internal assessment for Arab Platform for Professional Studies (ARPS) completion eligibility and separate mock/readiness assessments that are not the external official exam.

Assessment attempts: 2 per assessment, 7 days apart

The pass mark is announced before the program is published.

Certificate

The Arab Platform for Professional Studies (ARPS) credential confirms completion of the preparation program only; the target professional certification requires passing the external issuer's examination under its rules.

Every certificate has a public verification code. Verify a certificate

Verification example: a real issued certificate

Disclaimer: Independent preparation. This program does not administer the official CAMS exam, award the CAMS credential, or claim ACAMS partnership or endorsement.

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